Transforming Cultures

Is Sustainability Still Possible? The conversation continues at sustainabilitypossible.org.

Wrapping up the year, the Transforming Cultures blog, and sharing my thanks!

Worldwatch Europe’s new report provides valuable insights into how to turn our consumer kids into guardians of sustainable living.

Here’s a little lesson on how we don’t need magic to build community, we just have to see the world a bit differently.

Gangnam Style has taken the world by storm, and with it, so has a celebration of the hyper consumeristic lifestyle. It’s time for a new video that celebrates political action and simple living. Yes, we’re talking “Gandhi Style.”

Degrowth is coming, whether we want it or not. But for the entrepreneurial, here are some ways to profit from the transition.

What do you get when a team of anthropologists team up to study the stuff found in the homes of 32 American families?

24 artists appropriate billboards to challenge consumerism through the new Brandalism Project.

UNESCO Catalunya has just produced a youth edition of Transforming Cultures: From Consumerism to Sustainability in 4 languages. Check it out!

The Out of Home (OOH) Advertising Industry has spread its tentacles into nearly every nook and cranny outside your front door.

The new Story of Stuff Project film “The Story of Change” is out! And reminds us that we can’t consume our way to a sustainable society, but we’ll need to flex our citizen muscles and take political action.

Celebrate World Environment Day by organizing a game of Catan: Oil Springs, and have fun wrestling with environmental challenges!

Let’s offer thanks to the Earth for lending us the wisdom and passion of Ernest Callenbach.

To achieve sustainable prosperity, overdeveloped countries will need to degrow their economies. And fast.

Chris Jordan continues to make bold art with deep sustainability themes, including a new look at plastic pollution of the oceans with Gyre II.

Recent studies find that expressing gratitude leads to fewer aches and more restful slumber. With tonight’s sleep in mind, let me offer many thanks to those who’ve helped the Transforming Cultures Project over 2011!!

Eat Vitamin Donuts, Save Sugar, Garden More, Eat More Fish. These are just a few of the recommendations of the U.S. government over the past century. One they forgot: don’t take money from food companies.

What would you take if you had to retreat from a raging fire or impending flood? A change of clothes? Water purification tablets? A flashlight? Or a bottle of wine and block of cheese?

Zombies are now promoting the CDC’s disaster preparedness guide. But not as well as they could be. Here are a few tips for the CDC’s newest henchmen to reach even more eyes, hearts, minds, and of course, brains of the American people.

“You Shall Not TRASH!” So sayeth Gandalf in the newest epic, “Lord of Recycling.” Watch it at Transforming Cultures and see a great new eco-parody of “The Lord of the Rings” and a powerful example of viral social marketing.

The Transforming Cultures Project is proud to release a new sustainability education scenario for the world renowned board game, The Settlers of Catan. The scenario Catan: Oil Springs is available at www.oilsprings.catan.com